The warehouse will be capable of sub-division in to four units from 7,500 sq ft.

 

Noel Stevens, of Alder King in Exeter, said: "With industrial supply at historically low levels, the market is crying out for quality accommodation.

"This development will suit local, regional and national occupiers and add to the success of Matford Green Business Park. 

 

"Planning has been submitted and we’re looking to have the building completed by the end of the year.  There will remain a final development phase of approximately four acres."

 

Source: Insider Media South West

 

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Amazon may be using robots in its warehouses nowadays, but most warehouses and other storage facilities still rely on manual labour to fulfil tasks. These positions are likely to be filled by temporary workers, obtained via an agency, particularly around holiday seasons.

 

Many temp agencies still pay their employees using timesheets to record the working hours. The temp worker fills them in weekly with their hours and sends them to the agency. Sometimes these are digital timesheets, using Microsoft Office or PDF, and sometimes they go all the way back in technology to pen and paper. 

 

This kind of payroll process is fraught with possibilities for errors and outright fraud. Not only is it possible for the worker to submit an incorrect timesheet, as often agency timesheets aren’t signed off by the worker’s supervisor, but the process of typing out all these handwritten timesheets into an Excel document or whatever the company payment software requires is very likely to yield typos which change the end payment.

 

In order to stay on the right side of the National Minimum Wage regulations and the European Working Time Directive, sensible and forward-thinking companies should invest in technology to remove these weaknesses.

 

Our time and attendance system collects clocking data via radio-frequency smart-cards or fingerprint biometrics. Once workers clock in, the data is sent straight to the centralised software. From there, it can be easily exported (to send to agencies) or used to create reports with our helpful report wizard.